Canadian search teams hunt for unidentified object wreckage | Dubai News TV [Video]

Canada’s prime minister says he is not sure what was shot down on Saturday, but it ‘represented a reasonable threat to the security of civilian flight’.

Canadian investigators are hunting for the wreckage of a mysterious flying object shot down by a US fighter jet over the northwestern Yukon territory.

“Recovery teams are on the ground, looking to find and analyse the object,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters on Sunday. He gave no hint as to what it was, but said it “represented a reasonable threat to the security of civilian flight”.

“The security of citizens is our top priority and that’s why I made the decision to have that unidentified object shot down,” he said.

North America has been on high alert for aerial intrusions following the appearance of a white Chinese airship over the skies earlier this month.

The 60-metre-high (200-foot) balloon – which Americans have accused …